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Free trade, open borders, taco trucks on every corner. Latest discussion thread: April 2024 **We in m/Neoliberal support:** - Free trade and competitive markets
- Immigration
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- Carbon taxes
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- The neoliberal mind
- Neo-liberalism and its prospects
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Oh, wow! This is a good comment! I completely agree with it.
Right now, I believe nuclear is the best way forward. I’ve always believed the worst part of nuclear power is the name – it sounds too scary for some people, and hollywood doesn’t help.
I have had arguments before where nuclear waste was the crux if the issue, and no matter how much I tried to explain how little waste there actually was, the opponents stressed that any waste was unacceptable. It was very frustrating that they would prefer even coal power to nuclear!
Then, if you can manage to persuade them the waste is not an issue, then disasters such as Fukushima and Chernobyl come up. Even explaining that both of those are outliers and modern plants are far safer is not enough. They make it sound as if every nuclear plant is a disaster waiting to happen.
Selling these people on nuclear is difficult. They imagine each one as if it’s a nuclear bomb waiting to blow up (or something) and don’t care to understand how the plants actually generate electricity.